Your Word Is Your Wand

Words of Wisdom

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AFFIRMATIONS

“Faith without nerve is dead.”

There is never a slip ‘twixt the right cup and the right lip.

Never look or you’d never leap.

God works in unexpected places, through unexpected people, at unexpected times, His wonders to perform.

Power moves but is never moved.

Loving your neighbor means not to limit your neighbor in word, thought or deed.

“Never argue with a hunch.”

Christopher Columbus followed a hunch.

The Kingdom of Heaven is the realm of perfect ideas.

It is dark before the dawn but the dawn never fails. Trust in the dawn.

When in doubt play trumps, do the fearless thing.

It is the fearless things that count.

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.

It’s a great life if you don’t reason.

Regard your neighbor as yourself.

Never hinder another’s hunch.

Selfishness binds and blocks. Every loving and unselfish thought has in it the germ of success.

Be not weary of make-believing. When you least expect it you shall reap.

Faith is elastic. Stretch it to the end of your demonstration.

Before you call you are answered, for the supply precedes the demand.

What you do for others you are doing for yourself.

Before you call you are answered, for the supply precedes the demand.

Every act committed while angry or resentful brings unhappy reaction.

Sorrow and disappointment follow in the wake of deceit and subterfuge. The way of the transgressor is hard. “No good thing will be withheld from him who walks uprightly.”

There is no power in evil. It is nothing; therefore can only come to nothing.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

Drown the reasoning mind with your affirmation. Jehoshaphat clapped his cymbals so that he wouldn’t hear himself think.

All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.

Sure-ism is stronger than Optimism.

“Divine ideas never conflict.”

It is dangerous to stop in the middle of a hunch. Infinite Spirit is never too late.

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In brief

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Faith must have nerve. It acts on the hunch, does the fearless thing and refuses to let the reasoning mind argue it out of its leap. Shinn gathers her teaching into short sayings meant to be carried through the day. Supply comes before demand, God works through unexpected people and times, and the dawn never fails, however dark the hour. She joins this boldness to a law of conduct. Loving your neighbor means never limiting him in word, thought or deed. What you do for others you do for yourself, and anger, deceit and selfishness bring their own unhappy return. Evil has no power and comes to nothing, while poise draws the good that fear and impatience drive away. Shinn closes on freedom: all bondage is an illusion, there is always a way out under grace, and Infinite Spirit is never too late.

Key ideas

  • Shinn teaches that faith is proven by nerve: never argue with a hunch, and never stop in the middle of one.
  • The supply comes before the demand, so the answer is already there before you call.
  • Drown the reasoning mind with your affirmation, as Jehoshaphat clapped his cymbals so he would not hear himself think.
  • Loving your neighbor means never limiting him, and every unselfish thought carries the germ of success.
  • Fear and impatience demagnetize, while poise magnetizes.
  • Evil has no power, and there is always a way out of every situation, under grace.

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